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“Good Will Hunting” is an intense therapy with melodramatic elements that tries to push people who are not ready to be pushed and to try of changing their dramatic life. By using melodramatic elements the filmmaker tries to show to the audience that even of having a dramatic life, with some help and love everything can be overcome. The aggressive and problematic character of main movie character has roots since his abusive childhood. With this melodramatic elements, like the bad behavior of the…

An essay titled “Is Really Achilles a Hero[sic]?” by Stathis Metsovitis, a student at Massachusetts’ Institute of Technology, describes Achilles’ “system of ideals that sometimes no one else but him can understand” as leading to “obdurate, cruel, mindless behaviors that do not befit either a humane, minded individual or an inspired leader (Metsovitis).”…

John Nash is now a well-known mathematician. He is commonly recognized as the only mathematician to win the Nobel Prize and as the mathematician that the movie A Beautiful Mind is based on. While people are now aware of John Nash’s story, it was not previously well known. John Nash grew into a brilliant mathematician, was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and persevered through obstacles to continue working in mathematics. John Nash was born on June 13, 1928 in Bluefield, West Virginia where he…

referred to by Knappenberger as PACER. As the the documents were freed and no longered purchased by citizens, the Swartz became a person of intrest to the Federal Bureau of Investigations. Then, Swartz downloaded millions of documents at Massachusetts Institute of Technology from the online power JSTOR. He again was trying to free information held by some kind of authority and was arrested for it and accused of several felonies. Eventually, Swartz committed suicide in response to the stress and…

Stem Cell Research: The Bioethical Debate Medical technology is accelerating at the fastest rate the world has ever seen. Everyday there are new methods of treatment that make past treatments irrelevant and outdated. Stem cell research has been a debated topic for the past few decades. People argue that stem cell research is immoral because you’re essentially ending a possible life, an embryo, in order to save and treat many lives. Stem cell research needs to be funded and practiced. If it means…

Tom Brady, a prominent quarterback for the New England Patriots, is one of the National Football League’s (NFL) greatest quarterbacks to have ever played. He excelled in both Football and Baseball, and gave up the opportunity to play professional baseball and attended the University of Michigan instead. Tom Brady led his team to an Orange Bowl victory and set himself up to be selected in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL draft. A year later, after the starting quarterback for the Patriots was…

Swearing is a part of language and a natural part of life. According to Timothy Jay, Professor of Psychology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and leading psycholinguist in curse research, "when scholar disregard or dismiss it as irrelevant to a complete understanding of language, we are left with a polite or sanitized and therefore a false science of language" (Jay 2009, 157; Jay and Janschewitz 2007; Potts 2007). Furthermore, ignoring this aspect of language also creates an artificial…

In 1970 Norma L. McCorvey of Texas was learning that she was going to have her third child. McCorvey did not want a third child, so she attempted an abortion. She was not allowed to have an abortion because in Texas having an abortion for no real reason was against the law. Therefore Norma McCorvey claimed that she was raped and did not want the child. Her case was dismissed because there was no proof of rape. (The Stem Cell Controversy: Debating the issues). In 1970 Norma McCorvey’s…

Law enforcement agencies around the world are taking steps to cultivate better relations between minority teens and law enforcement. The Law School at the University of Chicago and the Invisible Institute founded a program called Youth/Police Project that provides a forum for teenagers to discuss how their lives are “affected by the character of police presence in their neighborhoods” (Mitchell, 2015, para. 15). The program focuses on personal experience…

Many have suggested that modern day gender roles have become the norm during the Napoleonic Wars where men and women began to occupy different spheres; men were expected to provide and protect while women were expected to provide nurture and support (Manson). That sort of belief carried over and integrated itself into American customs and traditions. From the foundations of our great nation, our society has been a patriarchal society. For example, in the Declaration of Independence, only people…